Brief biographies of 25 poets of the First World War, THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE RUPERT CHAWNER BROOKE , 1887-1915. Georgian poet. Born at Rugby. Educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge. He was an atheist and active Socialist. He was a friend of Edward Marsh and worked with him to prepare and promote the first Georgian Anthology of poetry. After travelling in Germany, and, following his nervous breakdown he went on a long tour to recuperate, taking in the USA, Canada, Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and Tahiti. After hesitation about what course of action to take at the start of the First World War he joined the navy. He was a witness at the siege of Antwerp before writing his famous set of five sonnets called 1914. Though he had seen the devastation and suffering created by the war he kept it all at an emotional distance from himself, denying the realities of war. He had a deeply confused personality - given to both ecstatic enthusiasm and suicidal doubt.

Following a mosquito bite he died of acute blood poisoning on board ship on his way to Gallipoli, and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. Minds at War and Out in the Dark contain all five of Brooke's 1914 war sonnets, plus his sombre and realistic last poem, Soon to Die. Minds at War contains a further thirteen and a half pages of discussion of Brooke's ideas, and extracts from his letters which reveal something of the way his mind worked, and the origins of some of the ideas in his sonnets. There are five pages of information about Brooke, and extracts from his letters in Out in the Dark. ELEANOR FARJEON, 1881-1965. Born in London. Well known as an author of children's stories. She was a close personal friend of Helen and Edward Thomas in the last few years of his life. She loved Edward, but knew that expressing her feelings to him would mean the immediate end of their friendship. They often visited each other and went on long country walks together. She typed his poems for him and submitted them, on his behalf, under the pseudonym of Edward Eastaway, to various publications.

Helen was aware of Eleanor's feelings towards Edward and was perfectly content with the situation, believing that it might help to make Edward a little happier. There are two of her poems in Minds at War and one in Out in the Dark. The poem that is common to both books is "Now that you, too" which is a moving poem about saying goodbye to Edward Thomas for the last time. JULIAN GRENFELL , 1888-1915. Educated at Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the army in 1910. He seemed to take a psychopathic joy in killing people. His poem Into Battle is said to be the most anthologised poem of the First World War. He died of wounds on 30th April, 1915, a few days after sending his poem to The Times. Into Battle appears in both Minds at War and Out in the Dark. IVOR GURNEY , 1890-1937. Born in Gloucester. Educated at King's School Gloucester and the Royal College of Music. He wrote poetry and music from before the war.

He volunteered to fight and was initially turned down because of his poor eyesight. He was gassed and wounded and returned to Britain. Mental illness developed. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1922. He was committed to mental hospital where he continued to write poetry and compose - sometimes believing that he was still taking part in the war. He died of tuberculosis. Three of his poems appear in Minds at War and two in Out in the Dark. RUDYARD KIPLING , 1865-1936. Born in Bombay. As a small child he was sent to England (Southsea) to be educated. He was desperately miserable for some years. He was principally educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! Before the war he favoured re-armament. He was vigorous in his opposition to Germany. After his only son was killed in the Battle of the Loos,in September 1915, Kipling's confident and simple verse faltered briefly. He is best known for his classic children's books - especially the Jungle Books (1894, 1895). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

During the First World War he was Director of Propaganda to the British Colonies. In Minds at War there are six of his war poems, plus an extract from A Song of the English. In Out in the Dark there are four full poems and two extracts. 1893 - 1918. Born Oswestry, Shropshire. Educated at Birkenhead Institute and Shrewsbury Technical College. From the age of nineteen Owen wanted to be a poet and immersed himself in poetry, being especially impressed by Keats and Shelley. He wrote almost no poetry of importance until he saw action in France in 1917. He was deeply attached to his mother to whom most of his 664 letters are addressed. (She saved every one.) He was a committed Christian and became lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden near Reading 1911-1913 - teaching Bible classes and leading prayer meetings - as well as visiting parishioners and helping in other ways. From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a language tutor in France.

He felt pressured by the propaganda to become a soldier and volunteered on 21st October 1915. He spent the last day of 1916 in a tent in France joining the Second Manchesters. He was full of boyish high spirits at being a soldier. Within a week he had been transported to the front line in a cattle wagon and was "sleeping" 70 or 80 yards from a heavy gun which fired every minute or so. He was soon wading miles along trenches two feet deep in water. Within a few days he was experiencing gas attacks and was horrified by the stench of the rotting dead; his sentry was blinded, his company then slept out in deep snow and intense frost till the end of January. That month was a profound shock for him: he now understood the meaning of war. "The people of England needn't hope. They must agitate," he wrote home. (See his poems The Sentry and Exposure.) He escaped bullets until the last week of the war, but he saw a good deal of front-line action: he was blown up, concussed and suffered shell-shock.

At Craiglockhart, the psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh, he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry. He was sent back to the trenches in September, 1918 and in October won the Military Cross by seizing a German machine-gun and using it to kill a number of Germans. On 4th November he was shot and killed near the village of Ors. The news of his death reached his parents home as the Armistice bells were ringing on 11 November. Owen is widely accepted as the greatest writer of war poetry in the English language. There are 27 of his war poems in Minds at War and 19 in Out in the Dark. Both anthologies contain additional information, comment, and extracts from his letters. OWEN SEAMAN, SIR, 1861-1936 Educated at Shrewsbury and Clare College, Cambridge. Professor of Literature at Newcastle (1890). Editor of Punch (1906-1932). He was encouraged to write for the war effort by the Government's Secret Bureau for Propaganda. His verse is a clear, competent call to support official Government policy.

Four of his poems are included in Minds at War. SIEGFRIED LORRAINE SASSOON, 1886-1967 Born in Kent. Educated at Marlborough, and Clare College, Cambridge. He was a keen sportsman, loving cricket and foxhunting. He was the first war poet to volunteer - 3 August 1914. Disillusion set in slowly. His first critical poem, In the Pink, was written in February 1916. He was the only English disillusioned First World War poet who made an effort to be politically effective. As a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he met and became a friend of Robert Graves. He became wildly angry at the death of one of his friends and fought recklessly, winning the Military Cross. He was wounded in the shoulder and later was shot in the head accidentally by one of his own men. The wound was a graze, but serious enough to put him out of the action for good from July 1918. It was when convalescing from his shoulder wound in the summer of 1917 that he made his famous protest about the war.

As a result of this he was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. There he met and encouraged Wilfred Owen with his poetry. He began to feel guilty about not fighting alongside his old comrades and returned to active service in November 1917. After the war he became literary editor of the Herald, returned to his country pursuits and wrote a number of autobiographical books. He married and had one son. He became a Roman Catholic in 1957. Second only to Owen as a war poet, he recorded the war and his developing responses with uncompromising honesty. Thirty three of his war poems are to be found in Minds at War, twenty-seven in Out in the Dark. There are seven pages of additional information and extracts from his diaries in Out in the Dark. In Minds at War there are twelve additional pages about Sassoon, including Arnold Bennet's response to Sassoon's defiance of military authority. Both anthologies include Sassoon's famous statement, In Defiance of Military Authority. EDWARD THOMAS , 1878-1917 He was born in London and educated at St Paul's School, and Lincoln College, Oxford.

His first book was published when he was eighteen and in the next eighteen years he wrote over 30 books and thousands of articles and reviews. In spite of his output he was treated meanly by publishers and was often troubled by a shortage of money. He was a friend of Gordon Bottomley, Walter de la Mare, Lascelles Abercrombie, Harold Monro, Eleanor Farjeon, the Meynells and friend and spokesman for the American poet, Robert Frost. It was Frost who encouraged Thomas to write poetry. Starting in December 1914 and finishing in December 1916 Thomas wrote 144 poems - mainly about the English countryside, weather, the seasons - all of them written in England, in a straight, unadorned style - a number of them darkly influenced by the war. His poetry was rejected as fast as it was submitted to newspapers and periodicals, using his pseudonym, Edward Eastaway. He was a shy, self -effacing man who suffered from depression and came close to suicide. Having volunteered for the front, after eighteen months training, he went to France with the Royal Garrison Artillery at the end of January 1917.

He was killed ten weeks later, on 9th April, leaving a wife and three children. The gentleness, subtle melancholy, plainness and direct honesty of Thomas's verse is both moving and impressive. There are ten of his poems in Minds at War and thirteen in Out in the Dark. Born in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, and grew up in Macclesfield and Buxton. Her Testament of Youth is one of the outstanding biographies of the First World War. She felt compelled to play a part, and worked as a VAD nurse in England, France (where her first task was looking after wounded German prisoners) and Malta. She was moved to the verge of a nervous breakdown by her experiences in the war and the loss of a close friend, her fiancé and brother. She wrote her Testament of Youth to record the effect of the war on her generation. Her interest in politics sprang from a desire to understand the causes of the war which, in turn, she hoped might help to prevent a recurrence of such a human catastrophe. She continued her biography in Testament of Experience. As a pacifist, supporter of the League of Nations, and feminist she wrote prolifically and lectured in Britain, the USA and Canada.

There are five of Vera Brittain's war poems in Minds at War and two in Out in the Dark. There are brief extracts from Vera Brittain's biography, Testament of Youth in both books. GILBERT FRANKAU, 1884-1952. Educated at Eton. Worked in the family tobacco business. Best-selling novelist (World Without End, 1943). Volunteered at the start of the war. He fought at Loos, Ypres and on the Somme. In spite of the bitter tone of some of his poetry he was an intense patriot and supporter of the war throughout. - At his own request, perhaps realising that he could not suppress the trauma much longer, he was transferred from the front line to staff work at the end of 1916 - propaganda in Italy. His brother, Jack, was killed in November 1917. He was invalided out of the war in February 1918 with shell-shock. He served in the RAF as a Squadron Leader in World War II. He married three times.

There are three full poems by Frankau and one extract from a poem in Minds at War, and one of his poems in Out in the Dark. ROBERT VON RANKE GRAVES , 1895-1985. Born in London. Educated at Charterhouse. His mother was German. As a child he spent five summer holidays at his grandfather's home in Germany. Went straight from school into the Royal Welch Fusiliers at the age of nineteen. He became a friend of Sassoon, Nichols and Owen. In July 1916 shrapnel from an exploding shell pierced his lungs and he was invalided out of the front line with major injuries and shell-shock. His autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929) is the most racily readable personal account of the First World War. Highly regarded as a love poet. During his second marriage (to his loving and long-suffering wife Beryl) and as he grew older, he developed amorous, but doomed relationships with a series of attractive young women. He was generous to a fault and commercially naive. Oxford Professor of Poetry 1961-1966.

His historical novels I Claudius and Claudius the God were best sellers. He lived most of his life in Majorca. During his life he suppressed most of his war poems, probably because he was not happy with the quality of them. There are ten of his poems in Minds at War. Several have not been in print for over half a century. THOMAS HARDY , 1840-1928. Born at Higher-Bockhampton near Dorchester. Educated at a private school in Dorchester. His pre-war poetry was admired by Sassoon. Wessex Poems (1898), Poems of Past and Present (1901), Times Laughing Stock (1909) and the dramatic epic of the Napoleonic Wars, The Dynasts (1904 - 1908). Best known as a classic novelist. His novels include Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891). He staunchly supported the war until it was over. A member of the Fight for Right Movement and the Secret Bureau for Propaganda.

Nine of Hardy's war poems are to be found in both Minds at War and Out in the Dark. JOHN McCRAE , 1872-1918. Born in Canada. Educated at McGill University. Although a doctor originally he fought on the Western Front in the artillery. In Flanders Field, one of the most famous poems of the war, was written during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was put in charge of the No 3 General Hospital at Boulogne before being appointed Medical consultant to all the British Armies in France. He died of pneumonia, on 28th January, 1918, before taking up the appointment. In Flanders Fields appears in both Minds at War and Out in the Dark. Educated Winchester and Oxford. He was in the trenches for only a few weeks before being invalided out with shell-shock and syphilis in 1915, never to return. Worked for Ministries of Labour and Information. He was a friend of Brooke and Sassoon. Georgian poet. Nichols' intense poem, Noon, is in both anthologies.

JOHN OXENHAM , 1852-1941 Popular novelist and poet. During the First World War his poetry sold over a million volumes, showing him to be the most popular poet at that time. His hymn, For the Men at the Front, is reputed to have sold eight million copies. Oxenham's support for the war is expressed in terms of Christian idealism and total faith in God's Divine Love and Purpose. Every soldier was sure of his place in Heaven. For the Men at the Front is in both anthologies. There are three further poems and two extracts in Minds at War, and one more Oxenham poem and an extract in Out in the Dark JESSIE POPE, 1868- 1941 Born in Leicester. Educated at Craven House, Leicester and North London Collegiate School. Popular journalist and versifier. Regular contributor to Punch, The Daily Mail, and The Daily Express. Owen originally addressed Dulce et Decorum Est to her. Two of her poems appear in Minds at War and one in Out in the Dark.

HERBERT READ , SIR, 1893-1968 Born in Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, the son of a farmer. Educated at Leeds University. Before the war he was a Socialist, and internationalist, yet he volunteered in January 1915, joining the Yorkshire Regiment. Promoted to rank of captain. He was a natural leader and derived great satisfaction from his role. He was courageous, and daring. Awarded the Military Cross, and the DSO - an award just short of the Victoria Cross. His 21-year-old brother, Charles, was killed in France in October, 1918. He married the girl he had loved since before the war, in 1919. Leading art critic. Anarchist theorist. Distinguished academic career. - A complex and brilliant man.- Knighted 1953. His moving poem about a deserter, The Execution of Cornelius Vane, and four other war poems are to be found in Minds at War. Born in Bristol, educated in London's East End and Slade School of Art.

He was an artist and engraver as well as a poet, but finding no work he volunteered in October 1915. Killed 1 April 1918. His war poetry is increasingly admired and was praised by Sassoon. There are nine of his poems in Minds at War, and ten in Out in the Dark, plus a little further background material. ALAN SEEGER , 1888-1916 Born in New York. Educated at Harvard. After graduating he lived in Greenwich Village for two years by sponging off his friends. He was aimless, anti-social and scruffy. His parents sent him to continue his studies in Paris. He saw the war as a liberation from the dullness of everyday life. On its outbreak he rushed to join the French Foreign Legion. He dreamed of leading heroic charges in the thick of battle. He was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre on the fourth day of the Battle of the Somme, 4 July, 1916. His deservedly famous and moving poem, Rendezvous, is included in both anthologies. CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY, 1895-1915 Born in Aberdeen.

Educated at Marlborough, University College, Oxford, and for six months in Germany at Schwerin and Jena. He loved Germany and hated the idea of the war and fighting for England. Consciously yielding to psychological pressure he enlisted in 1914, joining the Suffolk Regiment. He was promoted to Captain in August 1915 and killed in the Battle of Loos, 13 October 1915, at the age of twenty. Robert Graves was very impressed by Sorley's poetry. Five of his poems in both anthologies. Born in London. Thomas Hardy described her poetry as "superlatively good." Her poem, Forgotten Dead, I salute You, is to be found in Minds at War. KATHARINE TYNAN , 1861 - 1931 Born in Clondalkin, County Dublin. Educated Siena Convent, Drogheda. During the war she had a son serving in Palestine and another in France. Friend of W B Yeats. Both anthologies contain her poem, Joining the Colours. ARTHUR GRAEME WEST , 1891-1917 Educated at Blundell's and Oxford.

Enlisted with the Public School's Battalion in February 1915. He grew to hate the war, and lost his faith in God. He was convinced he should protest or desert but could not find the courage to do so. He was killed by a sniper's bullet, 3 April, 1917 at Bapaume. His war diary, The Diary of a Dead Officer, which contained his poetry, was published in 1919. West wrote two particularly powerful war poems: God, How I Hate You, and Night Patrol. The full texts of both appear in both anthologies. Biography of Rupert Brooke: Poet-Soldier By Robert Wilde Updated July 15, 2016. Rupert Brooke was a poet , academic, campaigner and aesthete who died serving in World War One , but not before his verse and literary friends established him as one of the leading poet-soldiers in British history. His poems are staples of military services, but the work has been accused of glorifying war. To be fair to Brooke, he didn't get a chance to see how World War 1 developed, but he did see the carnage first hand.

Childhood Born in 1887, Rupert Brooke experienced a comfortable childhood in a rarified atmosphere, living around - and then attending - the school at Rugby, a famed British institution where his father worked as a housemaster. The boy soon grew into a man whose handsome figure transfixed admirers of either sex: almost six foot tall, he was academically clever, good at sports - representing the school in cricket and, of course, rugby - and disarming in character. He was also highly creative: Rupert wrote verse throughout his childhood, having allegedly gained a love of poetry from reading Browning. continue reading below our video 10 Facts About the Titanic That You Don't Know Education A move to King's College, Cambridge, in 1906 did nothing to dim his popularity - friends included E. M. Forster, Maynard Keynes and Virginia Stephens (later Woolf) - while he broadened into acting and socialism, becoming president of the University's branch of the Fabian Society. His studies in the classics may have suffered as a result, but Brooke moved in elite circles, including that of the famous Bloomsbury set.

Moving outside Cambridge, Rupert Brooke lodged in Grantchester, where he worked on a thesis and created poems devoted to his ideal of English country life, many of which formed part of his first collection, simply entitled Poems 1911. In addition, he visited Germany, learning the language. Mental Problems and Travel Brooke's life now began to darken, as an engagement to one girl - Noel Olivier - was complicated by his affection for Ka (or Katherine) Cox, one of his fellows from the Fabian society. Friendships were soured by the troubled relationship and Brooke suffered something which has been described as a mental breakdown, causing him to travel restlessly through England, Germany and, on the advice of his Doctor who prescribed rest, Cannes. However, by September 1912 Brooke seems to have recovered, finding companionship and patronage with an old Kings student called Edward Marsh, a civil servant with literary tastes and connections. Brooke completed his thesis and gained election to a fellowship at Cambridge whilst captivating a new social circle, whose members included Henry James, WB Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Cathleen Nesbitt - with whom he was particularly close - and Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister.

He also campaigned in support of Poor Law reform, prompting admirers to propose a life in parliament. In 1913 Rupert Brooke traveled again, first to the United States - where he wrote a series of dazzling letters and more formal articles - and then through islands down to New Zealand, finally pausing in Tahiti, where he wrote some of his more fondly acclaimed poetry. He also found more love, this time with a native Tahitian called Taatamata; however, a shortage of funds caused Brook return to England in July 1914; war broke out a few weeks later. Rupert Brooke Enters the Navy / Action in North Europe Applying for a commission in the Royal Naval Division - which he gained easily as Marsh was secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty - Brooke saw action in the defence of Antwerp during early October, 1914. The British forces were soon overrun, and Brooke experienced a marching retreat through devastated landscape before arriving safely in Bruges. This was Brooke's only experience of combat. He returned to Britain awaiting redeployment and, during the next few weeks of training and preparation, Rupert caught flu, the first in a series of wartime illnesses.

More importantly for his historical reputation, Brooke also wrote five poems which were to establish him among the cannon of First World War writers, the 'War Sonnets': 'Peace', ' Safety ', ' The Dead ', a second ' The Dead ', and ' The Soldier '. Brooke Sails to the Mediterranean On February 27th 1915 Brooke sailed for the Dardanelles , although problems with enemy mines led to a change of destination and a delay in deployment. Consequently, by March 28th Brooke was in Egypt, where he visited the pyramids, partook in the usual training, suffered sunstroke and contracted dysentery. His war sonnets were now becoming famous throughout Britain, and Brooke refused an offer from high command to leave his unit, recover and serve away from the front lines. Death of Rupert Brooke By April 10th Brook's ship was on the move again, anchoring off the island of Skyros on April 17th. Still suffering from his earlier ill-health, Rupert now developed blood poisoning from an insect bite, placing his body under fatal strain. He died in the afternoon of April 23rd 1915, aboard a hospital ship in Tris Boukes Bay.

His friends buried him under a stone cairn on Skryos later that day, although his mother arranged for a grander tomb after the war. A collection of Brooke's later work, 1914 and Other Poems was published in swiftly after, in June 1915; it sold well. A Legend Forms An established and rising poet with a strong academic reputation, important literary friends and potentially career changing political links, Brooke's death was reported in The Times newspaper; his obituary contained a piece purportedly by Winston Churchill, although this section can be read as little more than a recruiting advert. Literary friends and admirers wrote powerful - often poetic - eulogies, establishing Brooke, not as a lovelorn wandering poet and deceased soldier, but as a mythologised golden warrior, a creation which remained in post-war culture. Few biographies, no matter how small, can resist quoting the comments of W. B. Yeats, that Brooke was "the most handsome man in Britain", or an opening line from Cornford, "A young Apollo, golden haired".

Even though some had harsh words for him - Virginia Woolf later commented on occasions when Brooke's puritan upbringing appeared beneath his normally carefree exterior - a legend was formed. Rupert Brooke: An Idealistic Poet? Rupert Brooke wasn't a war poet like Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, soldiers who confronted the horrors of war and affected their nation's conscience. Instead Brooke's work, written in the early months of the war when success was still in sight, was full of cheerful friendship and idealism, even when faced by potential death. The war sonnets swiftly became focal points for patriotism, thanks largely to their promotion by church and government - ' The Soldier ' formed part of the 1915 Easter Day service in St. Paul's Cathedral, the focal point of British religion - while the image and ideals of a brave youth dying young for his country were projected onto Brooke's tall, handsome stature and charismatic nature. Or A Glorifier of War? While Brooke's work is often said to have either reflected or affected the mood of the British public between late 1914 and late 1915, he was also - and often still is - criticised.

For some, the 'idealism' of the war sonnets is actually a jingoistic glorification of war, a carefree approach to death which ignored the carnage and brutality. Was he out of touch with reality, having lived such a life? Such comments usually date from later in the war, when the high death tolls and unpleasant nature of trench warfare became apparent, events which Brooke wasn't able to observe and adapt to. However, studies of Brooke's letters reveal that he certainly was aware of the desperate nature of conflict, and many have speculated on the impact further time would have had as both his skill as a poet, and the war itself, developed. Would he have reflected the reality of the war? We cannot know. Lasting Reputation Although few of his other poems are considered great, when modern literature looks away from World War One there is a definite place for Brooke and his works from Grantchester and Tahiti. He is classed as one of the Georgian poets, whose verse style had noticeably progressed from previous generations, and as a man whose true masterpieces were still to come. Indeed, Brooke contributed to two volumes entitled Georgian Poetry in 1912.

Nevertheless, his most famous lines will always be those opening ' The Soldier ', words still occupying a key place in military tributes and ceremonies today. Born: 3rd August 1887 in Rugby, Britain Died: 23rd April 1915 on Skyros, Greece Father: William Brooke 1000+ images about Rupert Brooke on Pinterest | English, Brooke d'orsay and Radford Forward Scholars into Soldiers (1), unfinished painting, Taplow Court, showing the children of the Souls, including Julian and Billy Grenfell, sons of Lord and Lady Desborough of Taplow Court, who were killed within a few weeks of each other in 1915. Among the others shown in the two paintings are Raymond Asquith, Edward Horner, Patrick Shaw Stuart, and Rupert Brooke. pin The Soldier - Poems | Academy of American Poets Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the Academy’s popular website; American Poets, a biannual literary journal; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events. Since its founding, the Academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization. browse poems & poets sign up to receive a new poem-a-day in your inbox sign up poem About this Poem Rupert Brooke is often considered a "Georgian" poet, referring to the 20th century British movement named in honor of King George V. A soldier during World War I, Brooke died of dysentery and blood poisoning aboard a troop ship. Winston Churchill used the occasion of Brooke's death, as well as his posthumous collection 1914 and Other Poems, to reinforce a recruitment drive. Rupert Brooke , 1887 - 1915 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.

There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. This poem is in the public domain. This poem is in the public domain. Rupert Brooke English poet Rupert Brooke wrote in an anti-Victorian style, using rustic themes and subjects such as friendship and love, and his poems reflected the mood in England during the years leading up to World War I.

Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) | The War Poet Association Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby and attended Rugby School, the English Public School famous as the home of rugby football, where his father was a Housemaster. Given that the school was also his family home, Rugby played a large part in his formative years. The school has a tradition of creating poets – forerunners of Brooke in the nineteenth century include Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough and Lewis Carroll. Brooke went on to study first Classics and then English Literature at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was also awarded a Fellowship in recognition of his work on John Webster. Brooke’s circle in Cambridge included Lytton and James Strachey, Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf. He was a leading figure of a group of friends dubbed the Neo-Pagans for their love of nature, camping, rambling and naturism. He became interested in socialism and was President of the University Fabian Society.

Brooke was strikingly good looking – ‘the handsomest young man in England’, according to Yeats. He had a difficult relationship with a dominant mother and a complex personality, which led to a number of troubled sexual and emotional relationships with both men and women. He suffered severe mental health problems during 1912, following which he travelled extensively in North America and the Pacific. He settled for a time in Tahiti, where he wrote a number of striking poems and is believed to have fathered a child by his Tahitian lover, ‘Mamua’. Brooke was a protégé of Eddie Marsh, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill and a leading figure in literary and cultural circles. Brooke and Marsh together conceived the idea of the influential Georgian Poetry anthologies, in which some of the war poems of Graves, Sassoon and Nichols first appeared. Brooke volunteered for active service at the outbreak of war in August 1914 and, with the help of Marsh and Churchill, gained a commission in the Royal Naval Division. He was part of the British Expeditionary Force which attempted to check the German advance on Antwerp at the start of hostilities.

After this first shocking experience of war he wrote five sonnets which at the time were lauded for their eloquent patriotism and which in later years were derided for their hollow sentimentalism. Brooke died in 1915, before seeing further action. En route to Gallipoli a mosquito bite on his lip became infected and he died of blood poisoning. He died on St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and was buried in a remarkable ceremony on the Greek island of Skyros. He immediately became part of a romantic myth which lit the imagination of a country still excited by the concept of youthful idealism and sacrifice. Churchill led the way in an emotional tribute in The Times: “He expected to die; he was willing to die for the dear England whose beauty and majesty he knew… The thoughts to which he gave expression in the very few incomparable war sonnets which he has left behind will be shared by many thousands of young men moving resolutely and blithely into this, the hardest, the cruellest and the least rewarded of all the wars that men have fought.” Brooke is at the same time one of the most mythologised and one of the most demonised of modern poets.

He is, however, a more complex and intelligent figure than is often supposed. His five sonnets of 1914, which are not representative of his other work, captured the mood of a particular moment and no doubt he would have written differently had he survived to see how the war progressed and attitudes changed. As the imagery of ‘The Soldier’ suggests, Brooke’s passionate patriotism was driven more by a love of the English countryside than ‘plutocratic, dirty’ English society, about which he was deeply ambivalent. The Soldier RUPERT BROOKE war poems biography Waikiki Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree... Rupert Chawner Brooke was a British war poet, somewhat idealistic and known for his looks. W.B. Years once described him as “the handsomest young man in England.” Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, he attended Rugby School where his father was a schoolmaster. He later attended King’s College, Cambridge, where he became one of the ‘Cambridge Apostles’, and made friends with members of the Bloomsbury group. Brooke struggled somewhat with his sexuality, which often led to a frustrated and unhappy romantic life.

During the First World War, Rupert Brooke was commissioned into the Navy, just after his twenty-seventh birthday, and took part in the Royal Navy Division’s Antwerp expedition. He died on April 23rd, 1915 off the island of Lemnos, in the Argean, on his way to battle at Gallipoli after contracting pneumonia from an infected mosquito bite. His body is buried on the island of Skyros, Freece. Search Poems: 1000+ images about Rupert Brooke (The most Handsome man in England) on Pinterest | English, Broken relationships and William butler yeats Forward Inscribed on Rupert Brooke's grave is his most famous poem, The Soldier. Written in the last months of 1914, after his return from the fall of Antwerp. Although he had experienced the chaos of battle there & seen the misery of the fleeing refugees, the full horror of the trenches was yet to be realised. It also bears a wooden cross inscribed: “Here lies the servant of God, Sub-lieutenant in the English Navy, who died for the deliverance of Constantinople from the Turks".

pin Rupert Brooke - Poet | Academy of American Poets Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the Academy’s popular website; American Poets, a biannual literary journal; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events. Since its founding, the Academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization. browse poems & poets First World War English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School's housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father's school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905. A year later, he attended King's College, Cambridge, where he was known for his striking good looks, charm, and intellect. While at Cambridge, he developed an interest in acting and was president of the University Fabian Society.

Brooke published his first poems in 1909; his first book, Poems, appeared in 1911. While working on his dissertation on John Webster and Elizabethan dramatists, he lived in the house that he made famous by his poem "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester." Popular in both literary and political circles, he befriended Winston Churchill, Henry James, and members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf. Although he was popular, Brooke had a troubled love life. Between 1908 and 1912 he fell in love with three women: Noel Olivier, youngest daughter of the governor of Jamaica; Ka Cox, who preceded him as president of the Fabian Society; and Cathleen Nesbitt, a British actress. None of the relationships were long lasting. In 1912, after his third romance failed, Brooke left England to travel in France and Germany for several months. Upon his return to England, Brooke received a fellowship at King's College and spent time in both Cambridge and London. In 1912 he compiled an anthology entitled Georgian Poetry, 1911-12, with Edward Marsh.

The Georgian poets wrote in an anti-Victorian style, using rustic themes and subjects such as friendship and love. While critics viewed Brooke's poetry as too sentimental and lacking depth, they also considered his work a reflection of the mood in England during the years leading up to World War I. After experiencing a mental breakdown in 1913, Brooke traveled again, spending several months in America, Canada, and the South Seas. During his trip, he wrote essays about his impressions for the Westminster Gazette, which were collected in Letters From America (1916). While in the South Seas, he wrote some of his best poems, including "Tiare Tahiti" and "The Great Lover." He returned to England at the outbreak of World War I and enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. His most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems, appeared in 1915. On April 23, 1915, after taking part in the Antwerp Expedition, he died of blood poisoning from a mosquito bite while en route to Gallipoli with the Navy. He was buried on the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.

Following his death, Brooke, who was already famous, became a symbol in England of the tragic loss of talented youth during the war. Selected Bibliography LibriVox Librivox Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain Menu Rupert BROOKE (1887 - 1915) This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Carolin Genre(s): Poetry

Question: Which poet, who died during World War One, wrote the poems 'Peace' and 'Tiare Tahiti'?
Answer: RUPERT BROOKE